12 April 2007
The KwaZulu-Natal MEC for Transport, Community Safety and Liaison together
with the Mayor for Hibiscus Coast Municipality Ms NF Shusha will launch a pilot
project on waste management. This project will be implemented within the ambit
of the Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) focusing on the environment and
culture sector. The project will be known as Siyazenzela.
The launch will be held in Ugu Agricultural Market, Port Shepstone on 12
April 2007 at 10h00.
The purpose of the project is to alleviate poverty whilst affording the
community members an opportunity work by collecting and managing waste within
their living environment. The waste management project will be piloted at
Masenenge, Mkholombe, Bhobhoyi and Louisiana within Hibiscus Coast
Municipality. The KwaZulu-Natal Cabinet has identified Hibiscus Coast, Msunduzi
and eThekwini municipalities. In supporting the three municipalities to pilot
the programme, the Department of Transport through its Expanded Public Works
Programme (EPWP) unit has set aside R2 million. The fund is to assist
municipalities to plan, design and start with the implementation of the
programme.
The Siyazenzela Project is modelled legally on a pioneering waste collection
project of Curitiba, in Brazil commonly known as 'Garbage - that is not
garbage.' There, the programme design is aimed at accessing communities and
generally not able to get waste collection services. These communities are then
recruited to collect and deliver household waste to designated central depots
for collection by the local authority in exchange for vegetables food parcels.
The local authority then proceeds with the processing of the waste and
stratifying it for recycling usage.
Contact:
Nonkuleko Mbatha
Media Liaison Officer
Cell: 083 645 6252
Issued by: Department of Transport, KwaZulu-Natal Provincial
Government
12 April 2007
Source: KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Government (http://www.kzntransport.gov.za/)
